Parallels, prescience and the past: analogical reasoning and contemporary international politics

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Parallels, prescience and the past: analogical reasoning and contemporary international politics

Analogical reasoning has held a perpetual appeal to policymakers who have often drafted in historical metaphor as a mode of informing decision-making. However, this article contends that since the beginning of the ‘War on Terror’ we have arguably seen the rise of a more potent form of analogy, namel...

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Main Author:	Mumford, Andrew
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer 2015
Subjects:	analogical reasoning war on terror policy making ideology history politics
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/35053/

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